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DCP-LETT-12077

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 52
Summary:

Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 141–3)
Summary:

Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11638

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 152
Summary:

Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.

Sleeping plants.

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DCP-LETT-11639

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 42
Summary:

Is pleased FD’s climbing work goes well.

Thanks him for information on heliotropism.

Discusses sleep movements

and his observations on the sensitivity of radicle tips.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11632

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–7 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 57
Summary:

Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11589

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.540)
Summary:

Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.543)
Summary:

Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.

Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11647

From:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 314
Summary:

Invites CD and Mrs Darwin to stay at his home if they plan to attend the International Congress of Anthropological Sciences, 16–21 August, and the seventh session of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 22–9 August.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11640A

From:
Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas; Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 230: 63
Summary:

CD elected corresponding member in the botanical section of the Académie des Sciences, Paris. [See 11653.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11641

From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 86: B19–20
Summary:

Observations on dimorphic and trimorphic plants of Scotland.

On fertilisation of Scrophularia nodosa.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6307A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
6 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Stephan Loewentheil and the 19th Century Shop, Baltimore, Maryland (dealer) (1990)
Summary:

TW’s account of the Ourang is very curious. CD hopes to see the primate whenever he goes to London, but he is leaving home for three weeks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11642

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 170
Summary:

CD’s election to the French Academy delights GB. Nationalistic prejudices have at last been overcome; congratulates him on what is now universal adoption of his views.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.544)
Summary:

Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Fisher
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 106
Summary:

Agrees to read manuscript if short.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11645F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 3)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot receive HdeV at Down, because he has just left home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11648

From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 36
Summary:

Congratulations on election to the French Academy of Sciences, Botany Section.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11646

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
9 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 7339: 57)
Summary:

Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea

and about wasps on Scrophularia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11643

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[10 or 11 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 4a)
Summary:

Arranges for HdeV to call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11649

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 718)
Summary:

GB’s note has given him more pleasure than his election to the French Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11650

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 24
Summary:

Congratulations on CD’s long-overdue election to the French Academy of Sciences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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